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Tag Archives: halloween
Halloween: choose your own adventure
I don’t know if there has ever been a horror franchise with more branching storylines and alternate endings. There are so many ways to watch the Halloween franchise. You could make it pure and simple. You could just watch the … Continue reading
Breaking down the lost scenes from the Halloween 1, 2 and 4 novelizations!
Reading Halloween by Curtis Richards and Halloween II by Jack Martin, I can remember them as if it was October 1981 again and I’d just read them for the first time. They are deliciously fast reads that simply make the … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday I Read the Book: Literary Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged halloween, Halloween 2, Halloween 4, John Carpenter, novelizations, slashers
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Guys just want to get Laid…to Rest
The reason you watch the Laid to Rest films is really for the fantastically grisly kills. While each film has a couple of intense suspense scenes, both movies are total chaos!!! But the extreme gruesome face mutilations in these movies … Continue reading
One terrifying Night of the Demons–decades of terrible sequels
Imagine being trapped in a pitch black funeral home filled with friends who suddenly look like a bunch of Linda Blairs, floating through the halls to steal your soul. Night of the Demons rocked my world when I first saw … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Amelia Kinkade, Christine Taylor, Edward Furlong, halloween, Kevin Tenney, Linnea Quigley, Mimi Kinkade, Night of the Demons, Shannon Elizabeth
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Can it be Halloween without Michael Myers?
When I first saw the original Halloween, not only was it a truly suspenseful and chilling experience, it had something else going for it—it felt like it was taking place on Halloween. Sure, it was filmed in California, the trees … Continue reading
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Tagged All Saints Eve, Berkshire County, Black Eve, Boo, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Dark Walker, Debbie Rochon, Devil’s Night, halloween, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Halloween Night, Happy Hell Night, Hayride, Hollow Gate, House of Fears, Ichabod Crane, Jack-O, Jack-O-Lantern, Left for Dead, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Myers, Mischief Night, Murder Party, Richard Tyson, Satan’s Little Helper, slashers, The Fear: Halloween Night, The Headless Horseman, The Hollow, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Midnight Hour, The Pumpkin Karver, The Scarehouse, Trick 'R Treat, Varsity Blood, Washington Irving
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Burnt Offerings: a new era of the slow burner horror film?
Having almost 40 years of experience watching horror films (I’m 41 and have been watching some form of horror films since I was like 5) I grew up on what are now considered ‘slow burners’: horror films that have about … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Cabin Fever, Eli Roth, Friday the 13th, halloween, House of the Devil, Saw, Scream, slasher, slow burner, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror, The Exorcist, The Grudge, The Ring, The Roost, Ti West
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More than you’d ever want to know about the 80s classic Square Pegs
I was in 8th grade when the television show Square Pegs premiered in the fall of 82 and became an instant hit with the Gen-X crowd. Rather than sending us off to the School of the Performing Arts and thereby … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Amy Linker, Berlin, Billy Idol, Devo, halloween, Jami Gertz, John Hughes, Johnny Slash, new wave, Sarah Jessica Parker, slasher, Square Pegs, The Waitresses, Tracy Nelson, Valley Girl
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Blood Song—Totally Out of Tune Terror
This 1982 slasher has everything going for it. A classic synthesized Halloween theme song rip-off, Donna Wilkes, who shrieked her way through Jaws II and later played hot hooker Angel, and teen angel Frankie Avalon as the killer! Need I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Angel, Blood Song, Frankie Avalon, Grease, halloween, Jaws 2, slasher
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What I don’t love about the Rob Zombie Halloween remake
And it has nothing to do with a Halloween 1978 purist attitude. The answers have come to me thanks to multiple viewings of the film. From the very start, I pretty much separated this film from the original (not surprisingly a … Continue reading